Hey all! Thanks for tuning in! I’ve been busy busy with the magazine, so there is a lot of GREAT news to catch up on (so much that I will save some for next week.) Luckily, you have a nice long weekend to read it all. (Like you’re going to be inside in front of a computer…right.)
—Jane
- While reading last week’s article, if you could call it that, “Bad Trees Choices for the Yard,” I learned something really interesting! “…the largest living organism in the world is a Colorado aspen root system called Pando. It weighs 6,600 tons and is thought to be 80,000 years old.”That got me thinking about Pando, so I looked it up, on Wikipedia of course. Its other name is much better: The Trembling Giant! Here’s a snap.
- Elderly daylily breeding stud turns coke mule; Internet blamed from the Times, who should know that “daylily” is one word. Best quote: “‘The people who do lilies are way cooler than other plant people,’ said Nikki Schmith, a gardener in Worden, Ill., who writes a day-lily [sic] blog. ‘He was just a stud. He just had the air. He had 70-year-old swagger.'”
- I’m sure it was traumatizing, but…lol… Rhododendron rescue: Couple trapped in dense forest on Irish mountainside. (HT to Jason Beardsley.)
- This is What it Sounds Like When You Put Tree Rings on a Record Player. OK, maybe not literally. I mean, not just any record player. But still, a very cool listen.
A FEW SHORT ITEMS:
- The Geneva Experiment Station has received $3.4 million in state funding for expansion.
- Proven Winners Announces $15,000 Scholarship Program.
- In case you missed it, the latest from news NYSNLA Region 5 — that’s PLANT WNY now — is here.
AND SOME JOBS
- Golf course superintendent at Turning Stone
- Plantations seeks a Director of Horticulture. Oh how I wish I were qualified. Dream job. [sigh]
- Plantations also looking for an assistant arborist.
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